There's gonna be a bunch of lunatic members of
by Barrister (2024-01-12 09:45:59)

In reply to: It seems that we had enough of the Houthis  posted by AquinasDomer

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Congress upset about this.

Yep, the far right and the far left, natch
by sprack  (2024-01-12 10:40:15)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

None of whom have bothered to read the War Powers Act.
Indeed. If MTG and Cori Bush are agin it,
by Barrister  (2024-01-12 11:05:33)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

I'm fer it.
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by Barney68  (2024-01-13 09:05:34)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

Yes. This multi-national strike to protect marine traffic
by Raoul  (2024-01-12 10:50:00)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

free/safe from terrorist attacks seems like a perfectly reasonable exercise of power by the President.

Reading some articles of who is upset, it reads like a who's who of lunatics. Basically the Justice Dems and other ultra Progressives + the Freedom Caucus. It is an affirmation that it was the right thing to do.

I think to should have been done sooner, but that is not something I want to focus on today. The Administration did what it should do to protect our national security and economic interests, along with those of many key allies.

I hope it works.

P.S. Most disappointing was Ro Khanna. He is smarter than this and better than the crowd he is being grouped with on this.
I have only one disagreement
by sprack  (2024-01-12 11:46:51)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

You have a higher opinion of Ro Khanna than I do.

Notably absent from that list of critics is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

I’m sorry to burst your bubble but he is a massive grifter
by Limbosmullet  (2024-01-14 10:53:02)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

A bought and paid for messenger boy for SBF. Khanna scrubbed the exchange below from his website after Khanna accused Terry Duffy from CBOT of perjury in an oversight hearing. Note that Duffy’s only sin in this instance was exposing SBF as a fraud 6 months before the rest of the world found out. I’d ask you to watch the below link and make up your own mind….

A Bernie progressive who is all in on crypto… it’s a joke

I see him as a much smarter and more serious thinker
by Raoul  (2024-01-13 12:25:31)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

than the rest of the Justice Dems. He shares many opinions with them, but he is far more thoughtful and much less predictable. There are those with whom I disagree and consider total clowns unworthy of engaging in debate, and then there are people like Khanna who are better than that. It is important to discriminate between him and say AOC or Cori Bush or Rashida Tlaib. In fact, I see him as much more interesting than Bernie or Liz Warren who are putative intelligent liberals but who have too much populism in their schtick. Khanna has a real vision. It just involves many policy I disagree with.

I agree
by AquinasDomer  (2024-01-13 12:31:55)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

I think he's likely going to pick up the Bernie/progressive torch going into the 2030s. He has a coherent worldview and seems to engage with people he disagrees with. The democratic party would be healthier if the progressive wing were unified around a real policy agenda and not just a wishlist that puts spending > GDP and reflexive antianericanism in foreign policy. He's a guy who could help make that happen.

A lot of his statements seem to vacillate between truly insightful and mind boggling naive/stupid. Hopefully he gets wiser as he gets older.
Horseshoe Theory proven right again. *
by CMCIrish  (2024-01-12 10:44:20)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

The Terror Caucus and the Putin Caucus finding themselves
by Barrister  (2024-01-12 11:17:17)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

in agreement. Yet again.